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Geminid meteor shower set to illuminate the night skies

Up to 150 meteors – which are unusual in the fact they can be multi-coloured – will be visible per hour

Wales Online

Geminid meteor shower set to illuminate night skies

Up to 150 meteors will be visible per hour.

The Independent UK

‘A new day has dawned’: Orion returns to Earth to complete Artemis I mission

ORLANDO, Fla. — NASA chased down the Orion spacecraft after its record-breaking reentry into Earth’s atmosphere Sunday to conclude the Artemis I mission that lifted off from Kennedy Space Center more than three weeks ago.

Orlando Sentinel

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A small but crucial space project could take Mars exploration to the next level

When it comes to “on the ground” exploration of Mars, rovers make pretty good advance scouts.

Inverse

Crucial year for burgeoning space economy

Thailand's satellite-related economy is expected to reach an important milestone next year with two major developments -- the auction of rights to use satellite orbital slots, scheduled for Jan 8, and a push by the telecom regulator to amend the rules governing landing rights licences for foreign satellite operators, paving…

Bangkok Post

Nasa’s uncrewed Orion capsule splashes down after ‘historic’ moon mission

US space agency rejoices after re-entry of spacecraft that should clear way for possible lunar landing of astronauts by 2025

The Guardian - US

The Loop: Ronaldo says World Cup dream 'ended', King Charles reveals first Christmas card, and major rescue underway at frozen lake — as it happened

The news Australia is searching for, and all the news that happened while you snoozed: This is The Loop, your quick catch-up for this morning's stories as they happened.

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SpaceX overnight launch sends private lander, NASA ice surveyor to moon

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX was back at the launch pad to send a couple of moonbound customers into space from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

Orlando Sentinel

Are we in the Anthropocene? Scientists vote on sites that may mark the beginning of an epoch

We've been discussing the "Anthropocene" for more than two decades, but it's not an official geological term. A group of scientists are voting this week to try and change that.

ABC News

Orion capsule splash-lands as Nasa hails ‘textbook’ return to Earth from Moon

It paves the way for the next generation of manned lunar missions

Wales Online

Splashdown: Orion returns to Earth to complete Artemis I mission

Orlando Sentinel

NASA's Orion capsule splash-lands in the Pacific after historic Moon mission

NASA needed a successful splashdown to stay on track for the next Orion flight around the moon, which will hopefully have four astronauts, and is currently targeted for 2024

Daily Mirror

NASA's Orion capsule is back on Earth after journey around the Moon

Orion splashed down under parachutes in the Pacific Ocean.

Axios

Nasa’s Orion capsule splash-lands in ‘textbook’ return to Earth from the Moon

The spaceship was launched aboard the Artemis 1 rocket on November 16 from the agency’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.

The Independent UK

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Artemis I returns safely to Earth, kicking off a new era of Moon exploration

The Moon mission paves the way to bring humans back to our nearest stellar neighbor.

The Independent UK

Nasa’s Orion capsule returns from trip around the moon after completing first mission of Apollo successor

Programme aims to get astronauts back on moon by 2024

Tribune News Service

Bill Madden: It’s contract madness from MLB owners at winter meetings in ‘age of irrationality’

NEW YORK — Sometime around the midpoint of the baseball owners’ nearly two billion dollar spending spree at the winter meetings in San Diego this week, Billy Eppler got off the phone in the Mets war room and announced to his troops that the earth had just shifted.

Inverse

'Rick and Morty' Season 6 Episode 10 release date, time, title, plot, and trailer for Adult Swim’s sci-fi show

Just in time for the holidays, the season finale is a Christmas episode. Here's everything we know about 'Rick and Morty' Season 6 Episode 10.

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Daily Mirror

'Game-changing' deep space explosion was caused by super-dense stars colliding, says NASA

Over the past year, researchers have studied a “high-energy bust” from the outskirts of the galaxy, some 1 billion light years away from Earth, that lasted about a minute

Orlando Sentinel

SpaceX overnight launch on tap to send private lander, NASA ice surveyor to moon

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX is back at the launch pad for another shot to send a couple of moonbound customers into space from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

The Guardian - AU

Blinded by the light: how skyglow pollution is separating us from the stars

Light infrastructure has expanded alongside population growth but it’s not only star gazing in jeopardy – cultures, wildlife, science and human health are all threatened

The Guardian - AU

Flights were expensive so I took the overnight Sydney to Melbourne train – it was cheap and cheerful (at first)

I didn’t get decent sleep or phone reception but there was more legroom and a hot meal – and maybe a smile from Mother Earth

Inverse

Geminids: You need to see 2022’s best meteor shower this week

After a few minor showers, this meteor shower is ready to put on a show. The Geminids are one of the highest-volume meteor showers of the year.

Newsroom.co.nz

How to stop this 'weapon of mass extinction’

Biodiversity is at a crucial point and pressure is growing on the international community to commit to new goals to protect it, Charis Palmer and Chris Bartlett.

Salon

America's dubious Space Race recruits

Desperate to win the Space Race against the USSR, the US quietly recruited prominent engineers from Nazi Germany

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